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Blue Shoes

(220 posts) Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:30 PM Dec 2016

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Stop trying to make moderate Trump happen

On Wednesday night, Donald Trump was watching TV and he got mad at a guy he apparently saw on TV and so he tweeted to his 16,997,292 followers that this guy he’d apparently seen on TV had “done a terrible job” at his actual job, if not on TV.

Trump was apparently mad because this guy — Chuck Jones, the elected president of Steelworkers Local 1999 — had told CNN's Erin Burnett that Trump had misrepresented how many jobs had been saved by his intervention with Carrier in Indiana. Jones told The Post's Danielle Paquette that Trump had “lied his [three-letter slang term for a posterior] off” by suggesting that the deal had saved 1,100 jobs. But Trump apparently didn't like that he said that on television, so he tweeted, and Jones started getting death threats.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/08/stop-trying-to-make-moderate-trump-happen/?utm_term=.1296230497b2

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Stop trying to make moderate Trump happen (Original Post) Blue Shoes Dec 2016 OP

CNN and MSNBC left-of-center2012 Dec 2016 #1

Trying to brown nose thier way into better press access. Blue Shoes Dec 2016 #2

Why bother with press access? Everything he says is a lie. lagomorph777 Dec 2016 #3

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)

1. CNN and MSNBC

Reply to Blue Shoes (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:43 PM

Dec 2016

A lot of the coverage I saw today seemed to be trying to say Trump's really not that bad.
Especially Chuck Todd was all smiley and nice.

Blue Shoes

(220 posts)

2. Trying to brown nose thier way into better press access.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:58 PM

Dec 2016

They aren't stupid. Trump responds to this sort of thing.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

3. Why bother with press access? Everything he says is a lie.

Reply to Blue Shoes (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 02:56 PM

Dec 2016

Devote your time to discrediting him and the ratings will come.

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